<p>CENTERVILLE, Mass. - For her two first-place efforts in helping Navy to a 3-0 record to open the season last week, senior women’s track & field sprinter Loni Forsythe (Chattanooga, Tenn.) has been named the ECAC Division I Track Athlete of the Week.</p>
<p>Forsythe, who was selected as the Patriot League Track Performer of the Week yesterday, is the first Mid to earn ECAC weekly honors on the track since Tineisha Davis in 2004.</p>
<p>The product of Chattanooga, Tenn., tied the fourth-fastest time in school history with an ECAC Championship qualifying, 7.15-second clocking in the 55-meter dash during Navy’s season-opening meet against American, Mount St. Mary’s and Towson last week in Annapolis. Forsythe came back to win the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.51 seconds, only 0.04 second away from matching the 10th-best time in program history.</p>
<p>The Midshipmen are off for final exams and will return to action following the holiday break on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2007, at the UMES Invitational in Princess Anne, Md.</p>